David Harrison's "Stress Free" Blog
Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent
indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric
(Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested
Yahoo! services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't it be
simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell? From
a technology perspective Novell has two things to offer Microsoft - SUSE and
Identity Management.
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Novell to continue their
Wordperfect anti-trust suit against Microsoft. Novell's argument is that
anti-competitive operating system issues caused their once mighty Wordperfect
suite to come tumbling down. This turn of fortune cost Novell to the tune of
$1 billion. The lawsuit Novell has filed against Microsoft is for damages
poten... (more)